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What Linnaeus Saw

Written by Karen Magnuson Beil

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus’s life and career in readable...

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Barack Obama

Written by Beatrice Gormley
The fascinating life and early struggles of Barack Obama, who has consistently broken barriers for...
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You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?

Written by Jean Fritz
"If only you'd been a boy," said Lizzie Cady's father when she won a prize for Latin. But Lizzie...
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Chasing Space

Written by Leland Melvin
Former football player, astronaut, and engineer, Leland Melvin recounts his career and achieving his...
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Marley Dias Gets It Done: And So Can You!

Written by Marley Dias

Drawing from her experience, Marley shows kids how they can galvanize their strengths to make...

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Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave

Written by Frederick Douglass
Former slave, impassioned abolitionist, brilliant writer, newspaper editor and eloquent orator whose...
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Enchanted Air: Two Cultures, Two Wings, A Memoir

Written by Margarita Engle
Margarita is a girl from two worlds. Her heart lies in Cuba, her mother’s tropical island country, a...
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Me Llaman Heroe: Recuerdos de Mi Juventud (They Call Me Hero: A Memoir of My Youth)

Written by Daniel Hernandez (author), ‎ Carlos Verdecia (Translator) and ‎ Susan Goldman Rubin (Contributor)
When Daniel Hernandez was twenty years old, he was working as an intern for U.S. Representative...
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Yo-Yo Ma (Life Skills Biographies)

Written by Annie Buckley
Yo-Yo Ma is a world-class cellist who has won numerous Grammy awards and is beloved by audiences...
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Larry Page and Sergey Brin

Written by James M Flammang
Discover how Larry Page and Sergey Brin started out as two ordinary computer science graduate...
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Madame C. J. Walker

Written by Katie Marsico
A biography of the African American businesswoman whose invention of facial creams and other...
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Andrew Carnegie

Written by Sarah DeCapua
Readers will be introduced to Andrew Carnegie and his rise from impoverished immigrant to one of the...
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Bill and Melinda Gates

Written by Dana Mechen Rau
Looks at the life of the founder of Microsoft, discusses the history of the company, and describes...
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Bono

Written by Christin Ditchfield
Bono and the band U2 have delighted audiences worldwide for more than 20 years. Readers will learn...
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Ellen Ochoa

Written by Annie Buckley
Ellen Ochoa's has a passion for engineering, space, and science. Readers will find out how Ochoa...
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Primates: The Fearless Science of Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, and Birute Galdikas

Written by Jim Ottaviani and Illustrated by Maris Wicks
Jim Ottaviani returns with an action-packed account of the three greatest primatologists of the last...
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Presenting Buffalo Bill The Man Who Invented the Wild West

Written by Candace Fleming
Everyone knows the name Buffalo Bill, but few these days know what he did or, in some cases, didn't...
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Brainstorm!: The Stories of Twenty American Kid Inventors

Written by Tom Tucker and Illustrated by Richard Loehle

Of the thousands of inventions filed each year since 1790 with the United States Patent Office, some...

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Inventing The Future: A Photobiography Of Thomas Alva Edison (National Geographic)

Written by Marfe Ferguson Delano
Holding 1,093 patented inventions, Thomas Edison was a master inventor. Uncover Edison's legacy with...
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Leonardo da Vinci (Giants of Science)

Written by Kathleen Krull and Illustrated by Boris Kulikov
Leonardo DaVinci was a genius of epic proportions and his notebooks prove that his thinking stood at...
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Something Out of Nothing: Marie Curie and Radium

Written by Carla Killough McClafferty
Marie Curie's worked on radioactivity changed science forever. Explore the life of one of the most...
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Who Was Walt Disney?

Written by Whitney Stewart and Illustrated by Nancy Harrison
In this Who Was...? biography, learn all about the man behind the magic of Walt Disney Studios. From...
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Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone

Written by Jennifer Fandel and Illustrated by Keith Tucker
Learn all about how Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone and changed communication.
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Who Is Bill Gates?

Written by Patricia Brennan Demuth and Illustrated by Ted Hammond and Nancy Harrison
In the Who Was...? biography learn all about the life of budding computer whiz and business magnate...
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